Computers Quote by Martin Cohen

When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think…

— Allen W. Wood

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

— Roger Scruton

“There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain…

— John Fraser

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

— Ellen Goodman

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist who is…

— David Eagleman

“Morality consists in this for each individual: to attempt each time to extend its region of clear expression, to try to augment its amplitude,…

— Gilles Deleuze

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it…

— Neal Stephenson

Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that "It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what…

— Matthew Tindal

“Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there is.”

— Erin Kelly

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Leibniz's development of the symbols and theory behind calculus, which allows for the precise study and modeling of change, gave mathematicians a weapon with…

— Christopher Steiner